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Not super educated on the subject but I'm pretty sure Usenet was just one platform/standard whereas the fediverse is a bunch of interoperable standards. That's a pretty huge leap I functionality
Fediverse is one standard - ActivityPub.
Yeah but there's different ways to interact with the fediverse via activitypub, whereas Usenet was just. Usenet
Itβs actually several standards, the primary one is activitypub but mastodon also uses webfinger, and for example peertube uses p2p transfers to serve video
But they aren't compatible, are they? Which would make it multiple, disconnected fediverses.
The Usenet is a very old and federated system. Same as the Fediverse, the Usenet is based around a single protocol (NNTP vs ActivityPub which Fediverse uses). Same as on the Fediverse, there are lots of different applications for it, that represent data in a different way.